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| AN AMERICAN DISCOVERS THE VEDAS |
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But more so
than any particular teacher the Vedantic teaching interested me, particularly the
Upanishads, which appeared as the ideal combination of spiritual philosophy and mystical
poetry. I felt in them the core teaching that I was looking for in all spiritual
teachings.
This led me to the works of Shankaracharya, the great commentator on the Upanishads
according to the system of Advaita Vedanta. The Advaitic view of the pure unity of truth
and the illusory nature of the world agreed with my experience of life through the
political and social turbulence of the late sixties and early seventies. yet I was also
drawn towards the earlier Vedas and their mysterious mantras, with which most Vedantic
teachers have little concern. I had a sense of things ancient and wanted to know the
earliest teachings of humanity. The idea of the ancient rishis and seers appealed to me
and I wanted to know who they were. |
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